Inline-0.79

NAME

Inline-Support - Support Information for Inline.pm and related modules.

DESCRIPTION

This document contains all of the latest support information for Inline.pm and the recognized Inline Language Support Modules (ILSMs) available on CPAN.

SUPPORTED LANGUAGES

The most important language that Inline supports is C. That is because Perl itself is written in C. By giving a your Perl scripts access to C, you in effect give them access to the entire glorious internals of Perl. (Caveat scriptor :-)

As of this writing, Inline also supports:

C++

Java

Python

Tcl

Assembly

CPR

And even Inline::Foo! :)

Projects that I would most like to see happen in the year 2001 are:

Fortran

Ruby

Lisp

Guile

Bash

Perl4

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS

Inline::C should work anywhere that CPAN extension modules (those that use XS) can be installed, using the typical install format of:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

It has been tested on many Unix and Windows variants.

NOTE: Inline::C requires Perl 5.005 or higher because Parse::RecDescent requires it. (Something to do with the qr operator)

Inline has been successfully tested at one time or another on the following platforms:

Linux

Solaris

SunOS

HPUX

AIX

FreeBSD

OpenBSD

BeOS

OS X

WinNT

Win2K

WinME

Win98

Cygwin

The Microsoft tests deserve a little more explanation. I used the following:

Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 6)

Perl 5.005_03 (ActiveState build 522)

MS Visual C++ 6.0

The "nmake" make utility (distributed w/ Visual C++)

Inline::C pulls all of its base configuration (including which make utility to use) from Config.pm. Since your MSWin32 version of Perl probably came from ActiveState (as a binary distribution) the Config.pm will indicate that nmake is the system's make utility. That is because ActiveState uses Visual C++ to compile Perl.

To install Inline.pm (or any other CPAN module) on MSWin32 w/ Visual C++, use these:

perl Makefile.PL
nmake
nmake test
nmake install

Inline has also been made to work with Mingw32/gcc on all Windows platforms. This is a free compiler for Windows. You must also use a perl built with that compiler.

The "Cygwin" test was done on a Windows 98 machine using the Cygwin Unix/Win32 porting layer software from Cygnus. The perl binary on this machine was also compiled using the Cygwin tool set (gcc). This software is freely available from http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/

If you get Inline to work on a new platform, please send me email email. If it doesn't work, let me know as well and I'll see what can be done.